humble3d Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Chinese teen chops hand off to ‘cure’ internet addiction An estimated 24 million Chinese teenagers are said to be addicted to online games A Chinese teenager has been rushed to hospital after chopping off his hand in a desperate attempt to cure his addiction to the internet.There are currently an estimated 24 million young “web junkies” in China according to official estimates and a growing number of clinics and military-style “boot camps” designed to rehabilitate them. However, hoping to rid himself of the vice, one 19-year-old from the city of Nantong in Jiangsu province took drastic measures of his own. He hacked his left hand off, according to a report on the Jiangsu TV channel. “We cannot accept what has happened. It was completely out of the blue. He was a smart boy,” his mother, who declined to be identified, told reporters.The woman said she had gone to her son’s bedroom at around 11pm last Wednesday only to find that he had disappeared. She found a handwritten note on the bed in which he should have been sleeping. Related Articles via the link below...Cyberspace cadets: the patients at the Daxing Internet Addiction Treatment Centre receive their instructions Inside China's military-style boot camp for internet addicts 17 Jan 2015Curing China's internet addicts 04 Jul 2014Should you crack down on your children's use of screens? 03 Feb 2015Japan to introduce internet 'fasting camps' 27 Aug 2013 “Mum, I have gone to hospital for a while,” it read. “Don't worry. I will definitely come back this evening." By then, her son, who was identified only as "Little Wang" had already smuggled a kitchen knife from their home and snuck out. Safely out of sight, the teenager severed his left hand at the wrist. He called a taxi to take him a nearby A&E and left the hand lying on the ground. Local television broadcast gory images of a bloodstained bench on which the boy had reportedly been sitting when he cut off his hand. Surgeons at a local university hospital managed to reattach the hand after it was recovered by police but said they could not guarantee full mobility would return. One of the boy’s teachers, who was not named, blamed his actions on an internet addiction which had made him “impetuous”. Campaigners say Asian countries such as China, which boasts some 649 million internet users, are in the midst of a major online addiction epidemic. Tao Ran, an army psychologist who runs a well-known Beijing rehab centre for internet addicts, estimated that around 14 per cent of his country’s youth were now hooked.Symptoms ranged from young people who skipped lessons at school to others who were so severely addicted that they rarely left their bedrooms and inhabited an almost entirely virtual universe. “They only do two things: sleeping and playing,” said Mr Tao, who traced the crisis back around a decade. Politicians are also starting to take note. Last month Taiwanese lawmakers approved changes to legislation that meant authorities could fine parents who allowed their children to spend excessive amounts of time using “electronic products”. In Japan, internet “fasting camps” have been set up in response to claims that hundreds of thousands of teenagers are abandoning the real world for the virtual one. An internet addict has his brain scanned at an rehabilitation centre in Beijing (Reuters)In late 2013, Shanghai approved new laws demanding that parents take action to “prevent and stop minors smoking, drinking alcohol, roaming the streets, or being overindulgent with online and electronic games”. Mr Tao, from the Beijing rehabilitation centre, said even more radical steps were needed.Children under the age of seven should be kept away from the internet and online games. Under-18s should be forbidden from stepping inside internet cafés, he said.“I heard about the young man who chopped off his hand,” Mr Tao added. “But I fear he will become addicted again.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11386325/Chinese-teen-chops-hand-off-to-cure-internet-addiction.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 what's this so called "internet addiction" i hear about? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Would you be quiet.. i'm trying to read here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 well chopping your hand off isnt going to work, next is your head when these 3D virtual junk "glasses" come out lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truemate Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazigh Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 what's this so called "internet addiction" i hear about? :/Internet addiction is when instead of controlling internet , the internet become controlling you :D, when you pass 5 6 7 or more hours behind the PC wasting your time in sth that can be done only in 1 to 2 hours, Internet or anything related to addiction might be the result of a depression, I consider myself an Internet addict but not at a high level, the main problem is in the brain and self-control abilities not in the hand which has been cut by this poor teenagerMore infos about Internet Addiction you can check our beloved wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction_disorder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 what's this so called "internet addiction" i hear about? :/Maybe a cousin of "porn addiction". :think:They got both same last name. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 what's this so called "internet addiction" i hear about? :/Internet addiction is when instead of controlling internet , the internet become controlling you :D, when you pass 5 6 7 or more hours behind the PC wasting your time in sth that can be done only in 1 to 2 hours, Internet or anything related to addiction might be the result of a depression, I consider myself an Internet addict but not at a high level, the main problem is in the brain and self-control abilities not in the hand which has been cut by this poor teenagerMore infos about Internet Addiction you can check our beloved wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction_disorderwait, but i spend at least 18 hours a day in front of a computer and sometimes forego food and rest and sometimes the need to go to the bathroom because all that are distractions that totally screw my concentration (no, seriously!, i come back from the bathroom and i'm like uummm... errr... where was i again?). and i can assure you, that is NOT addiction, it's called discipline. finishing stuff before wandering off. every time i'm out of the computer (say a party, the beach, etc) feels like a huge waste of time! (gee i could have written 10 or 20 functions instead of sitting here, glass in hand, smiling like an idiot.) i'm concerned with productivity. Is that withdrawal syndrome? of course not!. is it controlling me? NONSENSE!.but "non computer people" will say i'm definitely addicted because i don't do a bunch of things every day. and this is the important part: WHY should i care about what people that have no idea of what i'm doing --except that i sit in front of a computer all day, say? would they understand even if i explained it? most likely not, but they wouldn't understand a quadratic equation either, heck, i've met people that can't even read a simple flow chart! does it mean all these things are bad and evil? if it sounds stupid it's because it probably is.conclusion: there's no such thing as "computer/internet addiction" SPECIALLY when the one making the claim is not the tech kind.and look at this, (thanks for the link, mazigh, btw) it all originated as a hoax, a joke in 1995 by Dr. Ivan Goldberg, that some people started using as a spearhead to try to get their relatives off of the computer and take out the trash. why would someone take it seriously is anyone's guess.here's the original texthttp://www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/Netzdienste/anleitung/wwwtips/8/addict.htmland, if you can read spanish, here's a little article on how it all came to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 what's this so called "internet addiction" i hear about? :/Maybe a cousin of "porn addiction". :think:They got both same last name. :lol:ooh you little dirty robot. no, that's another fallacy that can be easily solved with an oil change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Chinese teen chops hand off to ‘cure’ internet addictionWhat gets chopped when his affliction turns to sex addiction? :think: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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